Dr Who.

[fleetfootmike]

I have not seen the finale yet.
Nor has bardling.

I've already seen TWO FRODDING SPOILERS in my first half page of friends posts.

Please PLEASE can folks keep their snark, comments, critique, flames and the rest behind cut tags for at least a frodding DAY?

Comments

[silme.livejournal.com]

I thought mine was safe as news that there's going to be a Torchwood mini-series and a Dr Who Christmas special is fairly well known; the whole idea that there will be just be Dr. Who specials next year and no complete series, I thought, was common knowledge to fans as Tennant's going to be busy with the RSC. Sorry! :(

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

You're not one of the two :)

[silme.livejournal.com]

Ah, good. I figured my 'wow' would just whet people's appetites. We only watched last week's episode ourselves on Wednesday night as we were out last weekend.

[annathepiper]

Ouch! Sorry you bumped into spoilers; my Friends list is being good so far, but I think most of the folks on it who are in the fandom are still busy trying to acquire the episode. *^_^*;;

[were-gopher.livejournal.com]

You'd best avoid the BBC entirely untill you've seen it. Spoilers on the main news page latest headlines scroller and the video news bar.

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

And on Radio 5, though with a spoiler warning.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that my three words could be considered a spoiler - merely an opinion.

Yeah...

[sweetmusic-27.livejournal.com]

I feel similarly. 8(

[smoooom.livejournal.com]

We're aquiring it here. Hopefully I will be able to see it before tomorrow.

[ian-myatt.livejournal.com]

Surely, now that the finale has been officially shown, there are no spoilers.

Don't worry, I won't let it slip that the new Doctor is Basil Brush.

DOH!

Ian

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Surely, now that the finale has been officially shown, there are no spoilers.

NOT TRUE!!! Conventional courtesy is that at least a week is given for TV, more in holiday times. And especially for finalé episodes. It is courtesy to extend it further if people are reading in other countries, and places where the programme is shown later (as for instance when we were getting B5 several weeks after -- or occasionally before -- the US).

This is particularly so for LJ, where things appear on the flist and can't be filtered out (with netnews I could killfile on titles or even on words or phrases within the body of the message) short of removing the offender from the list (and by then it's too late).

[allisona.livejournal.com]

I sympathize. I find people are hopeless for keeping spoilers to themselves, whether intentionally or accidentally. I avoided LJ and most of the 'net this weekend for the first time since the seventh Harry Potter book came out in hopes of not being spoiled for the Doctor Who finale before watching it. Finally had a chance to see it tonight so I'm back on-line :).